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jon357   
9 Jul 2025
Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1071]

"Well, many of these countries never even contacted us"!

Exactly. They don't realise that they don't hold the cards here.

While Trup gets deals done

What 'deals'?
jon357   
9 Jul 2025
Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1071]

[quote]Trump and[ Christianity/quote]
Two words that don't belong and the same sentence.
jon357   
9 Jul 2025
Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [737]

opening them back up

It doesn't work like that. Once you close a pit, you can't just reopen it.

Got to love the IKZE!

Something poorhouse Jim understands zero about.
jon357   
8 Jul 2025
Genealogy / Polish and gypsy traditions [140]

commonality from Russia to UK.

Ours came from further west and from Scandinavia, mostly in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, however most of yours and all of ours and most in northern Poland are from that same tribe. Traditionally they worked with metals, especially making/mending pans and doing small repairs. The ones from Romania wh9 play music are generally from other tribes.

Some of ours still do.
jon357   
8 Jul 2025
Genealogy / Polish and gypsy traditions [140]

They are all blood relations and Angloromani keep some of the traditions handed down even now. Scottish and Welsh gypsies use the term Kale (you'll hea4 that in Sweden too) to u decline their descent from a particular one of the four Roma tribes. Angloromani are also descended from that tribe.

Quite a few words 8n English come from the Roma languages.

travelling folk

You're thinking of Irish Travellers, a distinct group who are unrelated to Romany but have some things in common.

dress costume

They don't wear special clothes unless it's at The Appleby Fair. The men sometimes wear hats as a tradition. Irish travellers' dress is the same as anyone else, except for brides on their wedding day who wear such big and heavy dresses that they have a wheeled frame under them to support the weight of the fabric and the car battery used to light them up. Worth looking at.
jon357   
8 Jul 2025
Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1071]

not assimilated ?

Khan

He's not assimilated since he doesn't need to be; he's from London and has lived there all his life.

was voted into office by British citizens twice with a big majority

Twice even and probably a third at the next election.

This thread is of course about the disasters unfolding in the Americas and the scandals around their regime and president
.

Any mention of other countries is just a crazy and a recidivist felon trying to deflect from the mess in America.
jon357   
8 Jul 2025
Life / Immigrants in Poland [26]

Poland is your home country.

Which is why, despite it being g a nice sunny day where you're currently living, you're on here trolling about Poland from the moment you wake up til the moment your rheumy eyes close.

You may well be an immigrant somewhere else, however Poland is your home.
jon357   
8 Jul 2025
Genealogy / Polish and gypsy traditions [140]

According to a legend reported in the Persian epic poem,

There are certainly large gypsy populations in the Middle East. The country with the most Romany is Turkey.
jon357   
8 Jul 2025
Life / Immigrants in Poland [26]

And you're not Amerivcan.

Now get some sunlight, instead of mindlessly trolling an internet forum where you aren't wanted,
jon357   
8 Jul 2025
Life / Immigrants in Poland [26]

This thread is about Poland.

Buzz off and keep your inane death rattle to appropriate threads.
jon357   
8 Jul 2025
Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1071]

Yours is Poland.

It's fun to watch the tariff drama. They've really messed it up to the point tha5 so e major Oli producers and buyers are switching g away from USD for transactions and no longer using the SWIFT system.
jon357   
8 Jul 2025
Life / Immigrants in Poland [26]

there is a risk with russian migrants

A huge risk.
but ARAB migrants

Plenty of those, and it will change your nation.
jon357   
8 Jul 2025
Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1071]

seems that TACO has delayed them again to 1st August

Trup a.ways craps out.

call to prayer is forced to be heard

It isn't.

It's been done literally a handful of times in 100 years for special occasions.

As you were told before but probably didn't intellectually grasp, anythin* a,plifoed needs planning position and no religious organisations get that.

It's quite funny that they're banging on about irrelevant 5bi gs elsewhere, like their prejudice against religions etc, all to deflect from the current mess in their own country and its decline in status.
jon357   
8 Jul 2025
Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [737]

If you don't send that proof, the FPC's first action is to write to you asking you to provide it

Mine didn't ask for proof; I just filled in the form and they agreed it.

Thousands are sorting out their back payments though, so it can be six months or more before they process the payments and add them to your records.
jon357   
8 Jul 2025
Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1071]

A lot of copium and trash from the internet in those last two posts, written by characters who don't have a clue about the place they're writing about.

They just can't accept that most other places in the developed world are better than the place they're from.

how many people are getting charged for expressing their opinions publicly

Nobody is 'charged' with that, inciting murder and actually trying to set fire to hotels (those are the cases he's read about online) yes. Opinion, no.

We do charge people with fraud, car theft, forgery and our equivalent of Grand Larceny so at least the last poster would feel at home.
jon357   
8 Jul 2025
Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1071]

Justice might well not exist in the US before long.

That seems to be happening now.

It's hilarious to watch Trup making a mess of his tariffs. He doesn't realise that other major countries hold all the cards.

The only good thing he's done is to put higher tariffs on countries that trade with r*SSia.
jon357   
8 Jul 2025
Genealogy / Polish and gypsy traditions [140]

In my city a more recent thing has been them going around blocks of flats and playing an accordion

In Warsaw, you used to get that about 25 years back. Very popular, everyone came out to listen. The6 always played Besame Mucho.

As I remember, those musicians were often Romanian.
jon357   
7 Jul 2025
Genealogy / Polish and gypsy traditions [140]

As far as I know that guy is,

There's quite a strong culture in Poland. Music festivals etc.
jon357   
7 Jul 2025
Genealogy / Polish and gypsy traditions [140]

then what

I know one who works in finance for a well known multinational, another one who is a public sector engineer and another two who are teachers, one a textbook writer too.

Some work in construction and a few other fields. Some are entertainers. Some are farmers.
jon357   
7 Jul 2025
Genealogy / Polish and gypsy traditions [140]

begging and petty crime

No.There are people who come from further south to do that, however the stereotypes are usually wrong.
jon357   
7 Jul 2025
Genealogy / Polish and gypsy traditions [140]

A long tradition. Differences linguistically between the groups in the north and in the south. Many/most settled.

This is Don Vasyl, a King of Gypsies.

He's a musician as are members of his family. His son, Vasyl Junior is good too.